9-letter words containing a, m, g
- marriages — Plural form of marriage.
- marsh gas — a gaseous decomposition product of organic matter, consisting primarily of methane.
- martagons — Plural form of martagon.
- martingal — Alternative form of martingale (piece of harness for a horse).
- martyring — a person who willingly suffers death rather than renounce his or her religion.
- marveling — something that causes wonder, admiration, or astonishment; a wonderful thing; a wonder or prodigy: The new bridge is an engineering marvel.
- maryology — Mariology.
- mashgiach — mashgiah.
- massaging — Present participle of massage.
- massagist — the act or art of treating the body by rubbing, kneading, patting, or the like, to stimulate circulation, increase suppleness, relieve tension, etc.
- massinger — Philip, 1583–1640, English dramatist: collaborated with John Fletcher.
- mastalgia — (chiefly uncountable) Breast pain.
- mastering — a person with the ability or power to use, control, or dispose of something: a master of six languages; to be master of one's fate.
- mastigium — an extensible, lashlike, anal organ in certain caterpillars.
- mastigure — Any of the spiny-tailed lizards of the genus Uromastyx.
- mastology — Mammalogy.
- mat grass — a widespread perennial European grass, Nardus stricta, with dense tufts of bristly leaves, characteristic of peaty moors
- matagalpa — a city in W central Nicaragua.
- matagouri — a thorny bush of New Zealand, Discaria toumatou, that forms thickets in open country
- matchgirl — A girl who sold matches on the streets.
- matchings — Plural form of matching.
- matrixing — an electronic method of processing quadraphonic sound for recording in a two-channel form, for reconversion to four channels when played back.
- matronage — the state of being a matron.
- mattagami — a river in E Ontario, Canada, flowing N to join the Missinaibi River and form the Moose River. 275 miles (443 km) long.
- mattering — the substance or substances of which any physical object consists or is composed: the matter of which the earth is made.
- maxim gun — an early single-barreled, water-cooled machine gun cocked by the force of its own recoil.
- mcdougall — William, 1871–1938, U.S. psychologist and writer, born in England.
- mcglashan — Don(ald). born 1959, New Zealand musician and songwriter in the bands Blam Blam Blam, the Front Lawn, and the Mutton Birds
- mealy bug — any of several scalelike, homopterous insects of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae that are covered with a powdery wax secretion and feed on plants.
- meaningly — what is intended to be, or actually is, expressed or indicated; signification; import: the three meanings of a word.
- measuring — Ascertain the size, amount, or degree of (something) by using an instrument or device marked in standard units or by comparing it with an object of known size.
- medalling — (British spelling) present participle of medal.
- mediating — to settle (disputes, strikes, etc.) as an intermediary between parties; reconcile.
- megabases — Plural form of megabase.
- megabucks — one million dollars.
- megabytes — Plural form of megabyte.
- megachain — A very large and successful chain (group of stores or businesses).
- megacolon — (uncountable) Abnormal dilatation of the colon, not caused by mechanical obstruction.
- megacurie — a unit of radioactivity equal to one million curies
- megacycle — Electricity. a unit of frequency, equal to one million cycles per second; megahertz. The term megahertz is now preferred in technical use. Abbreviation: Mc, mc.
- megadeath — a unit of one million deaths: used in estimating or predicting the fatalities that would occur in a nuclear war.
- megadoses — Plural form of megadose.
- megaevent — A very large-scale event.
- megafarad — a unit of electric capacitance equal to one million farads
- megafauna — land animals of a given area that can be seen with the unaided eye.
- megafirms — Plural form of megafirm.
- megaflops — a measure of computer speed, equal to one million floating-point operations per second.
- megaflora — plants large enough to be seen by the naked eye
- megagauss — a unit of magnetic flux density equal to one million gauss
- megahertz — a unit of frequency, equal to one million cycles per second. Abbreviation: MHz.